PITCAIRNIA. 



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bracts minute, lanceolate. Sepals lanceolate, slightly floccose, 

 under an inch long. Petals bright red, 2 in. long, scaled at the 

 base. Stamens about as long as the petals. 



Hab. Andes of Peru, ascending to 16,000 ft., Pavonl Mathews 2089! 

 3032 ! Bolivia ; Yungas, 6000 ft., BusMj 2844 ! Introduced iiato cultivation by 

 Nation about 1850, and by Eoezl twenty years later. Allied to P. hromelicefolia 

 and alta. P. Klabochorum Hort., wliich I have not seen, is one of these tall 

 copiously-panicled species. 



68. P. STRicTA Andre Enum. 5. — Leaves erecto-patent above, 

 5 ft. long, 1^ in. broad at the middle, white-furfuraceous beneath, 

 with a brown clasping spine -margined base, subpetiolate in the 

 lowest foot. Flowers unknown. 



Hab. Southern Columbia at Piedra Ancha, Andre 3335. 



69. P. coRALLiNA Linden & Andre ; Carriere in Eev. Hort. 1875, 

 251, with figure ; Baker in Bot. Mag. t. 6600 (M.D.).— Acaulescent. 

 Leaves about 6 to a rosette, with a channelled spine -edged petiole 

 above a foot long, and a lanceolate-acuminate blade 2-3 ft. long, 

 3-4 in. broad at the middle, plicate like that of a Curculigo, green 

 and glabrous on the face, thinly white-furfuraceous on the back, at 

 first erect, afterwards recurving. Peduncles bright red, cernuous, 

 about a foot long; bract-leaves all small and scariose. Eaceme 

 dense, simple, a foot long ; pedicels short, cernuous, bracts small, 

 lanceolate. Sepals lanceolate, glabrous, bright red, an inch long. 

 Petals lingulate, 2 in. longer than the calyx, also bright coral-red. 

 Scaled at the base. Stamens as long as the petals. 



Hab. New Granada ; province of Choco. Introduced by Linden about 

 1874. Described from a plant flowered by Sir G. Macleay, March, 1881. Very 

 distinct by its dense cernuous spike and broad plicate Gurculigo-\i\.e leaves. 

 P. Maroni Eev. Hort. 1885, 108, is a hybrid between this species and Alten- 

 steinii raised by M. Maron, and P. Darhlayana, another nearly allied hybrid. 



70. P. XANTHOCALYX Mart, in Ind. Sem. Hort. Monac. 1848, 

 Adn. 4 (M.D.). P. fiavescens Baker in Bot. Mag. t. 6318. Cochlio- 

 petalum fiavescens Beer Brom. 69. — Acaulescent. Leaves 20 or 

 more to a stem, sessile, ensiform, 2-3 ft. long, 1-1^ in. broad at 

 the middle, narrowed gradually to both ends, flaccid, bright green 

 above, persistently white-furfuraceous on the back. Peduncle 

 erect, 1 J-2 ft. long, thinly pruinose ; lower bracts with produced 

 points. Eaceme simple, erect, lax in the lower half, 1-2 ft. long ; 

 rachis thinly floccose ; lower pedicels ascending, central spreading, 

 i-f in. long; bracts green, lanceolate, |~1 in. long. Sepals 

 lanceolate, yellowish- white, under an inch long. Petals lingulate, 

 primrose-yellow, 2 in. long. Style finally exserted. 



Hab. Brazil. Described from a plant that flowered at Kew, April, 1877. 



71. P. Plumieri Baker. Brocchinia Plumieri Griseb. Fl. Brit. 

 West. Ind. 593. — Leaves not seen. Panicle rhomboid, 1|— 2 ft. 

 long ; branches spreading or decurved, the central 4-5 in. long, 

 compound at the base ; flowers moderately dense, nearly sessile, 

 deflexed ; flower-bracts ovate, |-i in. long. Sepals lanceolate, f in. 

 long. Petals yellow, scarcely longer than the sepals. Stamens 

 not protruded. Capsule scarcely longer than the calyx. 



